TALLINN, January 14, Andrey Simonenko. Two-time world champion in men's single skating Swiss Stefan Lambiel expressed admiration for his student, Latvian figure skater Denis Vasilyev, after his performance in the free program at the European Championships in Tallinn. Vasiliev performed a clean free program with a quadruple salchow and two axels in three and a half turns and scored 181.84 points for it. The Latvian traditionally received high marks from the judges for the quality of skating and other components of the program. “I don’t care about medals, I just know that Denis is a star!” Lambiel told reporters. “If all this (tournament) is a circus, then the rest in it are clowns, and Denis is a real skater.» «He performed such a clean and powerful free program with a quadruple jump for the first time,» the Swiss added. and Andrey Mozalev leading after the short program.